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Residence | Melbourne, Australia (since 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Mudanjiang,[1] Heilongjiang, China | 25 December 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing style | Left-handed shakehand grip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 1 (April 2007)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 6 (February 2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Traditional Chinese | 馬麟 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 马麟 | ||||||
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Ma Lin (Chinese: 马麟, born December 25, 1989) is a Chinese-Australian table tennis player who has only a left arm.[1] He has won for gold, three silver and one bronze Paralympic medals in representing China and Australia over five games. He competed for Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Biography
Ma lost his right arm at age 5, after he went to the zoo with other children and stuck his arm in a cage to feed a bear.[2][4] He sustained a knee injury in the 2014 World Para Table Tennis Championships in Beijing.[5] Ma moved to Melbourne,[1] Australia in 2017.[3]
Table Tennis
He was named the 2013 Male Para-Table Tennis Star during the ITTF Star Awards in January 2014.[6]
He also registered with Table Tennis Australia, and competed in the Australian Open during the 2019 ITTF World Tour (with able-bodied athletes), losing his only match 0–4 to Thailand's Supanut Wisutmaythangkoon.[7]
He represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he won silver medals in Men's Singles C9-10 and Men's Team C9-10 with Nathan Pellissier and Joel Coughlan.[8][9]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal in the Men's singles C8–10.[10]
He competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics in the Men's Singles 9 and Men's Doubles 18. He won the bronze medal in the Men's Singles 9 after being defeated by Lucas Didier in the semi-final.
References
- ^ a b c d "Ma Lin - profile". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Ma Lin". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2020.[dead link ]
- ^ a b "Ma Lin - ranking history". IPTTC.org. ITTF Para Table Tennis. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ Lin Benjian; Zhao Baotong (17 September 2008). "马麟向马琳看齐". Yangcheng Evening News (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Ma Lin targets table tennis trifecta". International Paralympic Committee. 7 September 2016.
- ^ "Paralympians honoured at ITTF's Star Awards". International Paralympic Committee. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ "Ma Lin". ITTF. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Para-Table Tennis Squad's Tokyo Build-Up A 'Brilliant Example Of Teamwork'". Paralympics Australia. 5 July 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "Ma Lin". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
External links
Media related to Ma Lin (Paralympian) at Wikimedia Commons
- Ma Lin at ITTF Para Table Tennis
- Ma Lin at the International Paralympic Committee (2008–2016)
- Ma Lin at the International Paralympic Committee (2020)
- Ma Lin at Paralympics Australia
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Paralympic table tennis players for China
- Paralympic table tennis players for Australia
- Chinese male table tennis players
- Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- People from Mudanjiang
- Paralympic gold medalists for China
- Paralympic silver medalists for China
- Table tennis players from Heilongjiang
- Chinese amputees
- Chinese emigrants to Australia
- FESPIC Games competitors
- Naturalised citizens of Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis
- Table tennis players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Para Games
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Para Games